Where does “ultraofficious” come from?
ultraofficious (English) comes from English officious, from Latin officiosus, from Latin officium, from Latin opificium, from Latin opifex, from Latin Ops, from Latin oscen, from Latin opscen.
ultraofficious (English): extremely officious
Definitions
- extremely officious
Ancestry of “ultraofficious”, step by step
ultraofficious traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English officious
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | officious | Obliging, attentive, eager to please; Offensively... |
| 2 | Latin | officiosus | attentive, dutiful, obliging; officious |
| 3 | Latin | officium | duty, service; office; obligation, an obligatory... |
| 4 | Latin | opificium | work |
| 5 | Latin | opifex | Someone who does work (especially creative or constructive); worker, maker, framer, fabricator, workman, mechanic, artificer, craftsman, inventor, artist, artisan |
| 6 | Latin | Ops | earth goddess, fertility deity |
| 7 | Latin | oscen | any bird by whose song cries augurs divined... |
| 8 | Latin | opscen | — |
| 9 | Latin | ob- | towards; against |
| 10 | Latin | obolus | obolus (Greek coin) |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | ὀβολός | obol, obolus, used at Athens as both a weight and... |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | ὀβελός | a spit, rod; a horizontal line |
| 13 | Ancient Greek | βέλος | missile, arrow, dart; weapon; something quickly... |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷélHos | — |